The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture

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Página 32It takes about twenty- two amino acids to build all of the body's thousands of
different proteins. ... eating other lands of nutrients such as starches, sugar,
vegetable fats, and water, the body itself can synthesize twelve of these amino
acids.

Página 34Under stress, the body mobilizes all the amino acids it can draw on from muscles
and other tissues and converts them into glucose for extra energy. But at the
same time the body needs to step up the production of antigens that provide ...

Página 226A fifth priest then hacked open the wall of the chest, wrenched out the bearing
heart, and pressed it against the statue while the attendants pushed the victim's body gently down the pyramid's steps. When it reached the bottom other
attendants ...

Acerca del autor (1987)

Marvin Harris is an American anthropologist who was educated at Columbia University, where he spent much of his professional career. Beginning with studies on race relations, he became the leading proponent of cultural materialism, a scientific approach that seeks the causes of human behavior and culture change in survival requirements. His explanations often reduce to factors such as population growth, resource depletion, and protein availability. A controversial figure, Harris is accused of slighting the role of human consciousness and of underestimating the symbolic worlds that humans create. He writes in a style that is accessible to students and the general public, however, and his books have been used widely as college texts.